Can you imagine a metropolis of wealthy people tossing helpless teenagers into a televised royale battle to the death? The Hunger Games is a thrilling dystopian novel and also the first book of the The Hunger Games trilogy by American author Suzanne Collins. 

Collins believes that reality television offers the appearance of reality rather than reality itself. Do you agree? How was this theme manifested in the Games? 

Katniss’s journey in the Hunger Games is one of adolescent growth. What did Cinna see in her to call her ‘The Girl on Fire’? What did fire represent as a part of Katniss and how did she embrace that part of herself, and turn it into her strongest weapon?

Before the Hunger Games started, Peeta told Katniss, “I want to die as myself…I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not.” What does this reflect about Peeta and the things he feared more than death? To what extent did he manage to stay as his true self? What impact did this confession have on Katniss?

In the end, Katniss and Peeta swallowed the poisonous berries together. How is this attempt of double suicide a sign of rebellion to the Capitol and the cruelty of the Games? Do you think Peeta and Katniss will really be left alone hereon?